‘On Channel One – and the main news programme in the country – there are several layers of security, and it’s not that easy to get into the studio.

‘And there’s a member of law enforcement sitting right in front of the studio who makes sure that these kinds of incidents don’t happen. I won’t go into details because it was a loophole in Channel One’s security arrangements.’

She added: ‘The protest had two goals: show the whole world that Russians are against the war, and to show Russian people directly: “Don’t be such zombies; don’t listen to this propaganda; learn how to analyse information; learn how to find other sources of information, not just Russian state television.”

‘I am concerned for my safety, if I’m honest. I’m quite… I believe in what I did, but now I understand the scale of the problems that I’ll have to deal with.’